The sHill. Who gives a rats ass about any BS they print.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana is trying to stir up trouble with RFK Jr and the CDC.
He can start by hanging Fauci just because he can.
The CDC is bloated.
It needs to be small so it can respond fast.
Taking out the trash is great.
Replacing the director (on an acting basis) with a Thiel guy is more questionable.
Health professionals need to know how to respond to epidemics.
This requires the CDC to have expertise. This might require 60 people.
There is also the need to spot and monitor epidemics. This might require a few dozen people.
There is also a need for management to run the organization and decide if data is of sufficient quality to be placed on the agency website.
I don’t generally agree with this document as it would cause more bloat at an agency that needs to be as lean and as fast as a cheetah:
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/sites/default/files/2023-10/cassidy-cdc-rfifinal.pdf
“To facilitate more innovation at CDC, Congress should grant CDC Other Transaction Authority (OTA) to enable it to use procurement instruments flexibly and rapidly. This capability has been granted to other agencies (eg, Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH), US Agency for International Development (USAID)) that have used it to improve innovation. As stated in our report, OTA allows agencies to use procurement instruments other than contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements quickly and adaptively, enhancing crisis response. This allows more innovation and speed, particularly through enabling increased collaboration with the private sector and enhanced agility for technological development.”
“The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) also delays critical guidance. PRA requires CDC to seek public comment and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval on proposed information collections involving more than 10 respondents, prior to launching the data collection effort. This process also uses significant time and resources, making it impossible for CDC to move rapidly in crises. Existing pathways for CDC to pursue a PRA waiver require the agency to wait until a public health emergency before any exception is granted. This results in huge delays; for example, it took 3 months for CDC to receive an exemption during COVID-19. To address this issue, Congress should grant CDC a research activity exemption from PRA approval. Such an exemption has already been granted to NIH, under the bipartisan CARES Act.”
who do you trust ?
Kennedy or the CDC ?
For me, it's >u
Then, of course, there is the matter of Covid vaccines for children.
Covid vaccines can inflame tissue for about three days, as I know from personal experience. In most cases, this is just arm muscle, but it can also be heart tissue that might cause the heart to malfunction. As infants are smaller than adults, an amount of heart tissue inflammation that an adult can live with easily would quite likely be a more serious problem in a child.
I do believe children should get vaccines, but parents and doctors should decide when children get Covid vaccines for children.
Parents that travel might want their children to get the Covid vaccine before venturing to an area where Covid has flared up. Other parents may want to wait until just before kindergarten. Other parents will want to wait until there is a Covid epidemic in the USA. Other parents will want to wait so long that their children won’t likely die or get sick from Covid.
I do believe that initial Covid vaccination is generally indicated. Vaccination can be good for a lifetime.
However, quite a number of people will want to take their chances, which are excellent right now and might well remain so for decades.
“Five years ago, the CDC stumbled its way through the pandemic which cost us lives and time.”
Senator Scott
https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-dr-cassidy-launch-senate-republican-working-group-to-reform-cdc/
I recommended in April 2020 that the vaccine be given out on a Fibonacci (small, gradually increasing) basis.
The risk of 10,20,30,50,80,130,210, etc. dying was far smaller than the million or so Americans that wound up dead.
As vaccination was delayed awaiting FDA approval, more people got Covid, some of whom would have a more severe reaction to the vaccine they were later required to take to keep their job.
RFK is doing a great job, like most in this new administration.
According to some FReepers and others, not implementing sweeping changes/directives/firings on Day 2 was supposed to bypass such.
Natch. /s
smh
Those who need fixing the most do not want to be fixed.
Clutch your pearls and quit your careers girls: this isn’t science, just a big pharma circlejerk and has to be cleared.